Bolton Berates China Over Missile Transfers

U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton yesterday criticized China for failing to crack down on companies accused of missile technology transfers, according to the Associated Press (see GSN, Jan. 10).

In the last year, the United States has penalized a number of Chinese companies for providing ballistic missile technology to Iran, Libya, North Korea and Pakistan, Bolton said during a Tokyo conference.

“On numerous occasions we have expressed our concern about these entities to the Chinese government and have asked Beijing to subject exports by these serial proliferators to persistent and close scrutiny,” Bolton said.

“Unfortunately,” he said, “we continue to see transfers by these serious proliferators of missile-related items to rogue states and outposts of tyranny such as Iran” (Barry Schweid, Associated Press/San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 7).

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